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“Why am I not good enough to save you from destruction?” Courtney Love sings on “Honey,” one of the strongest tracks from Hole’s comeback album, Nobody’s Daughter. It’s no secret who she’s singing about; then again, there aren’t many secrets on the disc. A raw nerve dragged against guitar strings, Daughter reopens every wound Love might have let heal since her car-wreck of a solo album, 2004’s America’s Sweetheart. That includes the death of Kurt Cobain: After “Honey” unleashes one of the most nuanced—though still cathartically screechy—vocals of Love’s career, “Pacific Coast Highway” finds her driving down the titular interstate “with your gun in my hand / your whole world is in my hands.”